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Locke’s comment to me about Nancy R was so unflattering that I think I’ll skip it– let’s just stay with Locke’s characterization of her as a hypocrite. . .

You know, I wasn’t going to say anything about Nancy Reagan, but the bi-partisan snow job going on now, led of course by Hillary Clinton’s revolting and absurd paean to the Reagans’ non-existent AIDS advocacy, really makes me want to … Continue reading →

Someone in publishing was asking me that the other day. The entertainment biz still doesn’t get it: the thing to do is not to laboriously try to imitate her inimitable Alabama/New York/London accent or the timbre of her voice as … Continue reading →

Those words are painted on the 16th street facade of ex-Stuyvesant High School, now home to no fewer than three separate schools. Stuy is an alma mater of mine, and I always walk by it entertaining a backward glance in … Continue reading →

Remember that nice bagel store at the south west corner of B’way and 79th Street? Hadn’t been there for some months–saw today that it’s now a Verizon Wireless.

Why are Les Moonves and CBS allowed to use our airwaves for free as they actively promote for their financial gain the campaign of a dangerous demagogue whose deranged egomania has and will continue to do great harm to our … Continue reading →

No, democracy in the U.S. would very likely not be able to survive a Trump presidency, but can democracy in the U.S. survive the GOP’s outright refusal to obey a crystal-clear Constitutional mandate concerning the judiciary?

Thank you, Jen Hayden at dailykos.com for locating what is apparently the first New  York Times reporting on Hitler. Talk about going back to the present! The Times reported in 1922 that “several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that … Continue reading →

He is the logical and inevitable culmination of the softening up and stupidification practiced on the American population over the last forty years. Part of the degradation involves making celebrity the be-all and end-all, the one undying, ubiquitous cathexis of … Continue reading →

Speaking of Hallelujah, Baby!, Robert Hooks on his Facebook page says he’s written a memoir. I can’t wait to read it. His career is fascinating and I hope it’s published soon.